As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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